When Irena woke up, life was still peaceful.

Qi Lin and her had little to do, and every day they stayed in the room, waiting for Catherine's eggs to hatch...... No, it's waiting for Catherine to be promoted to the eighth rank and break out of the shell.

As for Yun Muzhi?

This Cloud Dao Elder is still busy in the sect, collecting all kinds of evidence, reintegrating his connections and forces in the sect, and winning over the elders, preparing his great plan to clear up his grievances and bring down the Daozi.

Judging from the current situation, it is not easy for Qi Lin to obtain the qualification to enter Taixuan Mountain and go home in a short period of time.

After all, according to Yun Muzhi, the real difficulty in overthrowing Daozi is not at the level of "evidence", but at the level of "sect".

As the suzerain's heir, Daozi Duanmu Yao's status is somewhat similar to that of the crown prince of a secular dynasty, which is equivalent to the heir of the emperor (suzerain).

The existence of the status of the prince and the Taoist usually represents a whole power group behind them.

The most important thing is that the old sect master of the Tianyuan Dao Sect is actually at the end of his life, and he has only a few years to live, so he has continued to delegate power in recent years, allowing Daozi to grasp a considerable amount of authority in the sect, and in the past two years, Daozi has basically managed the daily operation of the entire sect.

As the old sect master got closer and closer to the day of his death, Daozi had already been at the level of "half a sect master".

In this case, if Yun Muzhi wants to overthrow Daozi, then he must consider that after Daozi steps down, the power group behind Daozi, those elders who stand in the Daozi faction, will there be a riot due to the change of interests, causing civil strife in the sect?

If Daozi stepped down, it would cause civil strife in the sect, then the old sect master and the Law Enforcement Hall considered the stable continuation of the Tianyuan Dao Sect, even if the evidence of Daozi's crimes was pasted on their faces, they would choose to endure it, at most a little punishment, a small punishment.

After all, for the Sect Master and the Law Enforcement Hall, the stable continuation of the Tianyuan Dao Sect was far more important than the Daozi's personal morality.

As for the character and sins of the Taoist?

Yun Muzhi knew very well that in the face of the stable continuation of the Tianyuan Dao Sect, this "innocuous trivial matter" was not worth mentioning at all.

Therefore, if he wants to trip Daozi, in addition to the relevant criminal evidence, the most important thing for him is to prove one thing to the old sect master and the Law Enforcement Hall - after Daozi stepped down, he has enough ability to quickly take over the throne and stabilize the situation in the sect.

This matter is actually the main work that Yun Muzhi has been busy with since he returned to the sect.

And Qi Lin, as an "extraterritorial demon", was powerless in this matter, and basically couldn't help much, so he could only rely on Yun Muzhi to fight for his own strength.

But Qi Lin didn't completely stop asking about it.

These days, he has also visited around the Tianyuan Dao Sect, collected some information, and analyzed what Yun Muzhi's chances of winning are.

If the odds of winning are too low, then he will have to give up the line of Yun Muzhi and find another way to enter Taixuan Mountain.

ultimately

Qi Lin found that compared with Daozi Duanmu Yao, Yun Muzhi's disadvantages and advantages were obvious.

The main disadvantage of this cloud path chief is, of course, a weak foundation.

Among the Tianyuan Dao Sect, the elder standing on Yun Muzhi's side, the only one who can be said to be the number is his master Xuancang Daoist, the sword cultivation at the peak of the Eight Realms, the combat power ranks in the top five of the Tianyuan Dao Sect, which is considered a big name, but other than that, there are basically no people.

On the other hand, Duanmu Yao, after all these years of painstaking management after being successfully elected as Daozi, nearly seventy percent of the elders in the Tianyuan Dao Sect are now from the Daozi line, and these people are all waiting for Daozi to officially take the throne to succeed the sect master, and then start to divide the interest cake, in this case, those elders do not want Duanmu Yao to step down than Duanmu Yao himself.

But Yun Muzhi's advantages are also obvious.

- Daozi really doesn't do anything, once the evidence of Daozi's crime of framing Yun Muzhi back then and preparing to sabotage Yun Muzhi's pardon mission is exposed, it is enough to prove that Daozi has indeed violated the laws of the sect.

- The old sect master is very old, but he is not dead, as long as he is still alive for a day, then just give him a legitimate reason, and he has the ability to change the candidate of the Daozi at any time.

——The old sect master actually likes Yun Muzhi, a disciple who is also good at divination as him, and even when he was running for Daozi, Yun Muzhi made it clear that he would not participate in the election, but the old sect master still voted for him, although the final candidate for Daozi was still taken away by Duanmu Yao, who actively participated in the election, but the attitude of the old sect master was beyond doubt.

When Qi Lin gathered intelligence here, he was very emotional.

If God doesn't take it, he will be blamed.

There are some things that you don't take when you can, and when someone else takes them, you want to take them, but it's not so easy to take.

Yun Muzhi was in the center of power back then, but he thought that he could idle the clouds and wild cranes, and in the end he still paid the price for his innocence, and now, he has to work ten times or a hundred times harder to make up for his "ambition not here" back then.

After all, Michiko's campaign is mainly about voting.

And the suzerain's vote, although it is not said to be a veto, but the proportion is also quite large, in many cases, whoever the suzerain's vote is given to, who will be nine out of ten.

But Yun Muzhi didn't participate in the election at all back then, so the old sect master's vote back then was equivalent to not voting, and it was directly invalidated, and he could only express his own attitude.

in a word

Yun Muzhi was indeed not here back then, otherwise if he competed with all his might, it was really not certain who would be the candidate for the Daozi that year.

After all, Duanmu Yao back then, except for being particularly able to fight, had no other advantages.

And "combat power" is only one of the criteria for the suzerain's election, and it is not even enough to become an important item.

After all, no matter how much you can fight, can you still beat the Supreme Elder?

The patron saint of the Tianyuan Dao Sect is the Supreme Elder after all.

As for the next generation of guardian spirits of the Tianyuan Dao Sect, the Supreme Elder will be responsible for finding and cultivating, but in any case, this kind of guardian saint-level figure will not be a "manager" like the sect master, in fact, the Supreme Elder has never been a sect master in his life.

The suzerain is a position whose main responsibility is to manage the sect and lead the sect forward towards the next millennium of prosperity.

Similar to the work of charging into battle and defending against foreign enemies, there are naturally those who are more talented in the sect to do it.

For example, the most capable Elder Taishang, since he entered the sect at a young age, he is the most capable disciple in the same period, and his combat talent is completely full, all the way from the miscellaneous servants to the outer gate, from the outer gate to the inner gate, from the inner door to the true lineage, and then from the true disciple to the elder and the elder Taishang, and has been fighting for hundreds of years.

Until today, Elder Taishang has single-handedly raised the ceiling of the combat power of the entire Yuan Qi Realm, becoming the first Nine Realm cultivator in the history of the entire Yuan Qi Realm, and the most capable one in the history of the world.

Elder Taishang has never been a sect master.

But after a few years, the people of the Yuan Qi Realm may forget what the current sect master of the Tianyuan Dao Sect is called, but they will definitely not forget what the strong man who single-handedly repelled the foreign enemies of the other world, turned the sky down, and saved the whole world is called.

- Li Shan!

This is the name of the Supreme Elder, ordinary and ordinary.

When Qi Lin heard this name in the Tianyuan Dao Sect, he was a little surprised at first, after all, he originally thought that a legendary figure like Elder Taishang might also have a legendary name commensurate with it.

But when he thought about it, he understood.

It's the people, not the names, that are legendary.

No matter how ordinary the name is, it will be remembered by the history books because of the extraordinary people.

In Qi Lin's opinion, the growth trajectory of the current Daozi Duanmu Yao is more similar to that of Taishang Elder Li Shan, who has fought all the way through the invincible opponents of the disciples of the same period, which can be described as excellent combat power.

But people are different after all.

Elder Taishang had never touched the authority of the sect in his life, and he was very smart.

After Qi Lin learned about the life and deeds of this Supreme Elder, he found that Li Shan chose to leave the sect during the period before and after his Daozi election, and disappeared directly for more than a hundred years, and it was not until the contemporary Daozi succeeded to the position of the sect master that he returned to the sect and offered gifts to the sect master and disciple.

And the "sect master's junior brother", that is, the current old sect master who is good at divination, has always respected Li Shan, the senior brother, and everyone has given him enough face, because Li Shan gave him enough face first.

But Duanmu Yao is different.

Duanmu Yao has always had a strong desire for power, he likes power, and he has been fighting for power as much as possible, which is completely opposite to Elder Taishang's indifferent personality of fame and fortune.

Yun Muzhi is also different.

Although Yun Muzhi also wanted to be idle like Elder Taishang at the beginning, Yun Muzhi a few years ago obviously didn't have as good a brain as Elder Taishang.

At least in terms of human sophistication, Yun Muzhi is not as clear as the elders.

Elder Taishang didn't want to fight for power back then, but he knew very well that in the center of power, there were many things that he couldn't help himself, so he chose to stay away from the center of power, and directly left the sect to avoid suspicion, and disappeared without a trace.

For more than a hundred years, no one in the sect knew whether he was dead or alive, and naturally no one regarded him as a candidate for Daozi, so that his Daozi junior disciple succeeded smoothly, and there were almost no twists and turns in the whole process.

But Yun Muzhi is a bit of a fool.

Six years ago, Yun Muzhi claimed that he had no intention of fighting for power and just wanted to live the life of an idle cloud and wild crane, but on the other hand, he was highly active in the sect all day long, jumping around, and from time to time he grabbed the limelight of the current Daozi Duanmu Yao...... The point is that according to his own investigation, Qi Lin found that Yun Muzhi's kid was indeed a little jumpy back then.

In Shigui Mountain, Yun Muzhi only told Qi Lin that Duanmu Yao targeted him and framed him.

But Yun Muzhi didn't tell Qi Lin, in fact, he himself has always had little respect for Duanmu Yao, the senior brother, and even when they went on missions together before, they liked to fiddle with their own cleverness when they had nothing to do, and mocked a wave of Duanmu Yao in links such as cracking formations and solving puzzles, so as to show off and enjoy the laughter of the little sisters in the team.

Even after Duanmu Yao became the Taoist, Yun Muzhi's attitude did not change in the slightest, and he even often did not call his senior brother in public, but called him by his name.

The atmosphere of respecting teachers in the Yuanqi realm is extremely strong, and the rules between brothers and sisters are also very heavy, and the symmetry is particularly important.

Even, Yun Muzhi "drunk and lost his words" at a friend party, saying: "Duanmu Yao? That guy is useless except for fighting, and he's still a good guy, hahahaha! ”

As a result, the friendship was careless.

This sentence was spread afterwards, and the entire Dao Sect was in an uproar, and in the end, Duanmu Yao and Yun Muzhi never expressed their position, and this matter was slowly diluted.

But if Duanmu Yao doesn't express his position, does he really care?

The answer, obviously, is no.

Yun Muzhi's many actions all the time were enough to make Duanmu Yao hostile to him.

Yun Muzhi will fall to this point today, in addition to Duanmu Yao's ruthless personality and unscrupulous means, he is indeed a little "self-seeking", he was really too jumpy back then.

Taishang Elder Li Shan, in the face of this situation, gave the correct answer hundreds of years ago, but Yun Muzhi, the descendant, did not copy it.

If you don't want to fight for power, then you go farther, what does it mean to repeatedly jump sideways near other people's power circles? Who can not think about this after watching this?

in a word

After these days of investigation, Qi Lin found that Yun Muzhi, who was in the sect back then, was actually a person who was giggling all day long, very cheerful and lively, and especially liked to make trouble and show off.

In contrast, Yun Muzhi's current temperament is much more introverted, and many people in the sect say that Yun Muzhi seems to have changed after returning to the sect.

Or he pretended to be.

Either it was the six-year exile of Shigui Mountain, which really changed Yun Muzhi's character.

Qi Lin is more inclined to the latter.

After all, experience can really change a person.

But it doesn't matter either.

What kind of person Yun Muzhi is, Qi Lin doesn't really care, he only cares about the agreement between himself and Yun Muzhi.

Being allowed to enter Taixuan Mountain, without angering that ninth-order Taishang Elder Li Shan, and successfully returning to the Blue Star Federation in a cross-border teleportation array is Qi Lin's number one goal.

Therefore, in the next competition with Daozi Duanmu Yao, if Yun Muzhi needs help, then Qi Lin will still help him.

After all, the boat is already on board, and you have to work hard to paddle after all.

However, as of now, Yun Muzhi doesn't seem to have anything to help Qi Lin, and judging from his expression, although Yun Muzhi is very busy these days, things seem to be progressing considerably, and the smile and confidence on Yun Muzhi's face are getting stronger and stronger day by day, and he has a bit of a chance to win.

Qi Lin only hopes that things will work out smoothly.

……

……

15 days later.

Catherine woke up from her slumber, smashed the eggshell with one punch, and broke out of the shell in an eighth-order posture!

Qi Lin immediately helped her upgrade a little.

——

[Name: Catherine]

[Health Level: 7th →8th]

[Race: Succubus]

[Strength: 7th Order 9 Stars→ 8th Order 9 Stars]

[Agility: 7th Tier 9 Stars→8th Tier 9 Stars]

[Defense: 7th Tier 9 Stars→ 8th Tier 9 Stars]

[Spirit: 7th Order 9 Stars→ 8th Order 9 Stars]

[Magic: 7th Order 9 Stars→ 8th Order 9 Stars]

[Flame Power: 7th Order 9 Stars→ 8th Order 9 Stars]

——

Since then, the two major succubi under Qi Lin's command have all reached the level of the peak of the eighth order!

(End of chapter)